[PLUG] kernel OOPS -- debugging suggestions?

[Galen Seitz]

Rogan Creswick wrote:
> When I got home and woke up my laptop (a Thinkpad T42p running Debian
> unstable,  2.6.26-1-686 smp kernel, but uniproc machine) I found the
> stuff below spammed to all my open terminals (gnome-terminals, running
> under Enlightenment DR17).  I've never had any logs show up in a
> user-space terminal on this install in the past, and poking around in
> the logs, I don't see what differentiated these messages from the rest
> of the content in the logs.  These messages are not the most recent
> entries in kern.log or syslog, which seem to be the only places the
> messages were written, although I didn't do an exhaustive search.
> 
> Spammy stuff in question is below the line.
> 
> This has me a tad concerned, since I've also noticed a decrease in
> general stability of this machine over the last 3-4 months.  (I seem
> to reboot ~2+ times per week now, when it used to run for months on
> end.)
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions? (This machine is probably nearing the
> end of it's life -- a sad thing indeed -- but I'd like to prolong
> things as much as is reasonable.)

This Debian forum thread seems to be describing a problem similar to 
yours.  I assume your laptop has ATI video.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=191696&sid=de690b792fe20f23c2ce9fa89cd8866c

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Galen Seitz
Seitz & Associates
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